Is it a thing for older people to be picked up from the airport?

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to be chauffeured from the airport, you pick the flight that accommodates the person driving you. Period.

Nope.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If my husband refused to take care of our children for one night so that I could welcome my father, the man who gave me life, by picking him up at the airport, he would no longer be my husband. You’ve got much bigger problems than an Uber ride OP. Unbelievable!

LOL. Dramatic much?

The dramatic one is the PP who said taking them to the airport to pick up their grandfather was “torturing” the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be chauffeured from the airport, you pick the flight that accommodates the person driving you. Period.

Nope.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My parents have heard too many bad stories about Uber, and wouldn't feel comfortable using the service. They're old, I get it.

Say it with me: T A X I

Depends which airport. Sometimes the wait for a taxi is an hour in the cold. I'm not going to put them through that to save myself a short drive!

Where and when did that happen to you? I have found regular taxi lines to be shorter nowadays, probably because so many people use Uber/Lyft instead.

I agree there needs to be a bit of balance/give and take. We pick up when we can but have family that tends to be respectful too. My ILs are actually flying in tomorrow for a long weekend, arriving at bwi during rush hour (only southwest offers direct flights from their city). Upon telling us their flight schedule, they immediately said they would take a cab from their airport to the hotel and come over Saturday morning rather than try to squeeze in a late visit tomorrow during bedtime (our kids are 3 and 5). DH works in Virginia so it would have been a slog for him to get there and they recognize that. Similarly, when we fly to visit them we often just rent a car now than have them drive nearly an hour to pick us up and try to play Tetris in their cars with the kids car seats.